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With qubits encoded into atomic ground and Rydberg states and situated on the vertexes of a graph, the conditional quantum dynamics of Rydberg blockade, which inhibits simultaneous excitation of nearby atoms, has been employed recently to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Xianjue Zhao , Peiyun Ge , Hongye Yu , Li You , Frank Wilczek , Biao Wu

Current quantum computing devices have different strengths and weaknesses depending on their architectures. This means that flexible approaches to circuit design are necessary. We address this task by introducing a novel space-efficient…

Emerging quantum processors provide an opportunity to explore new approaches for solving traditional problems in the post Moore's law supercomputing era. However, the limited number of qubits makes it infeasible to tackle massive real-world…

We propose a nonadiabatic non-Abelian geometric quantum operation scheme to realize universal quantum computation with mesoscopic Rydberg atoms. A single control atom entangles a mesoscopic ensemble of target atoms through long-range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Chen-Yue Guo , L. -L. Yan , Shou Zhang , Shi-Lei Su , Weibin Li

Neutral atom technology has steadily demonstrated significant theoretical and experimental advancements, positioning itself as a front-runner platform for running quantum algorithms. One unique advantage of this technology lies in the…

Quantum machines are among the most promising technologies expected to provide significant improvements in the following years. However, bridging the gap between real-world applications and their implementation on quantum hardware is still…

The task of factoring integers poses a significant challenge in modern cryptography, and quantum computing holds the potential to efficiently address this problem compared to classical algorithms. Thus, it is crucial to develop quantum…

Despite extensive research efforts, few quantum algorithms for classical optimization demonstrate realizable quantum advantage. The utility of many quantum algorithms is limited by high requisite circuit depth and nonconvex optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Taylor L. Patti , Jean Kossaifi , Anima Anandkumar , Susanne F. Yelin

We propose and implement a quantum-informed reduction algorithm for the maximum independent set problem that integrates classical kernelization techniques with information extracted from quantum devices. Our larger framework consists of…

Challenging combinatorial optimization problems are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Several quantum methods for optimization have recently been developed, in different settings including both exact and approximate solvers. Addressing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Nicolas PD Sawaya , Albert T Schmitz , Stuart Hadfield

Variational quantum algorithms, such as the Recursive Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (RQAOA), have become increasingly popular, offering promising avenues for employing Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices to address…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Shuaiqun Pan , Yash J. Patel , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann , Thomas Bäck , Hao Wang

We provide a non-unit disk framework to solve combinatorial optimization problems such as Maximum Cut (Max-Cut) and Maximum Independent Set (MIS) on a Rydberg quantum annealer. Our setup consists of a many-body interacting Rydberg system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Kapil Goswami , Rick Mukherjee , Herwig Ott , Peter Schmelcher

Combinatorial optimization is regarded as a potentially promising application of near and long-term quantum computers. The best-known heuristic quantum algorithm for combinatorial optimization on gate-based devices, the Quantum Approximate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Sami Boulebnane , Ashley Montanaro

In the classical online model, the maximum independent set problem admits an $\Omega(n)$ lower bound on the competitive ratio even for interval graphs, motivating the study of the problem under additional assumptions. We first study the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Minati De , Satyam Singh

The practical implementation of high-fidelity quantum gates faces significant challenges in simultaneously mitigating multiple operational errors arising from distinct physical mechanisms. These errors often span orders of magnitude in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Min-Hua Zhang , Jing Qian

Rydberg atom arrays offer flexible geometries of strongly-interacting neutral atoms, which are useful for many quantum applications such as quantum simulation and quantum computation. Here we consider a gate-based quantum computing scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Seokho Jeong , Xiao-Feng Shi , Minhyuk Kim , Jaewook Ahn

We study the costs and benefits of different quantum approaches to finding approximate solutions of constrained combinatorial optimization problems with a focus on Maximum Independent Set. In the Lagrange multiplier approach we analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Zain H. Saleem , Teague Tomesh , Bilal Tariq , Martin Suchara

Demonstrating quantum advantage for combinatorial optimization requires more than standalone algorithmic results; it calls for end-to-end case studies that integrate problem modelling, quantum execution, and classical refinement into…

The Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem is a fundamental combinatorial optimization task that can be naturally mapped onto the Ising Hamiltonian of neutral atom quantum processors. Given its connection to NP-hard problems and real-world…

Designing quantum algorithms with a speedup over their classical analogs is a central challenge in quantum information science. Motivated by recent experimental observations of a superlinear quantum speedup in solving the Maximum…